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Insufficient
inter-cluster
coordination…
… and its effects.
Problems of “meta-clusters”
•
Strengthening accountability towards
the Humanitarian Coordinator;
•
Ensuring a common
agenda for the country team;
•
Ensuring, together with the Humanitarian Coordinator, humanitarian space in
integrated
missions;
•
Inter-cluster coordination.
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Inter-cluster coordination, however, is weak both at the global level and in almost
all case study countries, except DRC.
31
Operational inter-cluster coordination
mechanisms exist, both at the global and country levels. However, especially at
country and sub-national levels, they focus largely on information sharing and do
not systematically identify multidisciplinary issues, duplications or gaps, nor follow
up on identified issues. Strategic inter-cluster coordination mechanisms do not
currently exist at the global level. At country level, Humanitarian Country Teams
or their equivalents are mainly understood as inter-agency, rather than inter-cluster
meetings. In cases where they address inter-cluster issues, they often face the problem
that country representatives or heads of agencies do not or cannot adequately
represent cluster positions and interests because they lack relevant information.
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The evaluation team observed several effects of ineffective inter-cluster
coordination, including:
•
Important multi-sectoral, inter-cluster and cross-cutting issues are often not
addressed, such as for example land issues in Myanmar and Uganda, conflicts
over the use of schools as shelters in Haiti or other issues related to recovery and
livelihoods strategies.
•
Overlaps between clusters persist, such as for example between WASH,
Education and Health concerning water and sanitation access in schools and
coordination can be poor for example between agricultural and non-agricultural
livelihoods activities covered by Food / Food Security / Agriculture and Early
Recovery respectively.
•
The creation of targeted multidisciplinary groups for specific issues remains an
exception. Positive examples include thematic groups on drought in the oPt, the
merging of clusters with a high potential for overlap in Chad, and a working
group on water scarcity in Myanmar.
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Several clusters, including CCCM, Protection and Early Recovery are thematically
defined in such a way that they overlap with inter-cluster coordination. The camp
31 Cf. Cosgrave at al. (2007), p. 46
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